If the USA can get out of their group then the most likely scenario to win the tournament would be to beat Brazil in the Quarterfinal, Mexico in the Semifinal, and Argentina in the Final.

dN

Minnesota United travels to Oklahoma City for the first time ever on Saturday night.

It was good to see random internet notes pertaining to Minnesota United showing Ben Speas and Brent Kallman both back from injury and making the trip to OKC. We had already seen another injured player Danny Cruz on the field in St Louis on Wednesday so we knew he is healthy too. That leaves just the long term injury of Greg Jordan and shorter term injury of Jeb! Brovsky to deal with.

dN

BTW, yesterday I asked Minn United for a GIF of Jack Blake's first ever goal, scored in St L on Wed, and they reciprocated:

MLS Week 14:
-Thu Jun 2New York City 2-3 Salt LakeDallas 1-1 HoustonLA 0-0 Kansas City
-The league is now off until Jun 18.

My MLS Notes:

Salt Lake, (Go get em!), got the only win last night, but no big surprise since NYC has only 1 home win in 9 games.

LA + SKC are two teams with big questions in the goalkeeping category but neither made a change after gaffable prior games and both got a shutout. I am sure each team is happy with that.

LA was incredibly inept offensively at home, with not 1 single shot on goal. Pathetic might be a better word than inept actually. Where as KC had 15 shots on goal and couldn't score, now that is inept. (In truth the vast majority of the SKC shot were from the 15-25 yard range.)

People are telling me that continuous heavy rains in the Dallas area has caused the condition of the FCD field to suffer badly. Apparently its been getting worse during the past week or two of excess moisture. Damn. Flooding is one of those disasters that is hard to overcome. Also found out, after much cajoling, that a concert took place at the stadium last weekend. That plays a bigger role then rain ever will.

Bradley Wright-Phillips of New York Red Bulls named MLS Player Of The Month for May. Deserved.